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‘VENOM’ Flaw in Virtualization Software Could Lead to VM Escapes, Data Theft (Threatpost)
2015-05-13 13:34

Researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in an obscure component of many virtualization platforms that they say can allow an attacker to escape from a guest virtual machine and gain code execution on the host, as well as any other VMs operating on that machine. Experts say the bug affects a wide variety of virtualization software […]


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